Advances in the science and technology of computing have engendered unprecedented improvements in scientific, biomedical, and engineering research and industrial innovation. Continuing and accelerating these advancements will require people to comprehend vast amounts of data and information being produced from a multitude of sources. Visualization will be critical in achieving this goal.
The next decades will see an explosion in the use and the scope of medical imaging and the fuel for this fire will be computing and visualization. In my opinion, advanced, multimodal imaging and visualization techniques, powered by new computational methods, will change the face of biology and medicine. These imaging modalities will produce information about anatomical structure that is linked to functional data, in the form of electric and magnetic fields, mechanical motion, and metabolism. This integrated approach will provide comprehensive views of the human body in progressively greater depth and detail, while such visualizations gradually become cheaper, faster, and less invasive. As a result, computer assisted imaging will become more ubiquitous, which will, in turn, produce new scientific and clinical specialties that rely on particular combinations of imaging, computer science, and medicine. In this talk, I will discuss the state of the art in biomedical visualization research and present examples of their vital roles in cardiology, neuroscience, neurosurgery, and radiology.
Volume Rendering of Aneurysm MRA
Gordon Kindlmann